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@@ -800,6 +800,12 @@ killed it, so the manual view described in §9.3 works unchanged for subtitles.
 on-screen signs; it never satisfies a want and arr never goes looking for one.
 An SDH track is complete and satisfies, ranked below a plain subtitle.
 
+Neither gets its own sidecar name. A language is satisfied by exactly one
+sidecar, so `<video>.<lang>.srt` needs no segment distinguishing forced from
+plain from SDH — where a plain subtitle exists for a language, the forced one
+is ignored rather than kept beside it. The database says the same thing: one
+sidecar row per (media file, language).
+
 **Translation.** When no provider has a wanted language, arr translates
 immediately — there is no waiting window. The source is an existing subtitle:
 a downloaded one, or one extracted from a text-format embedded track. Being
@@ -827,6 +833,10 @@ property — with the app stopped, the filename says which subtitles are
 machine-made. Folder-level delete stays atomic because sidecars are inside the
 folder.
 
+`.mt` is the only optional segment. One language, one sidecar: a second
+subtitle for a language arr already has is refused, and replacing one is the
+manual delete-then-fetch §15's no-upgrade rule already describes.
+
 **Sync.** `alass` runs on every fetched and every translated subtitle. It is a
 single small binary invoked like `ffprobe`, so it costs nothing at rest. It
 reports no confidence value, so its output is accepted unless it is
@@ -834,9 +844,17 @@ implausible — a shift beyond 60 seconds, or cues lost — in which case the
 unsynced original is kept and the file is flagged.
 
 **Configuration.** Provider credentials and translator API keys are bootstrap
-config or environment, per §10. Wanted languages, chosen engine, per-provider
-enable and the daily budgets are database rows edited from `/settings` without
-a restart.
+config or environment, per §10 — a secret never becomes a database row. Wanted
+languages, chosen engine, per-provider enable and the daily budgets are
+database rows edited from `/settings` without a restart.
+
+So is everything needed to point the OpenAI-compatible backend somewhere else:
+its **base URL and its model name are database rows too**, not bootstrap
+config. That backend is not "OpenAI" — it is any endpoint speaking that shape,
+`llama.cpp` and a local gateway included, and which one is in use is a thing to
+try and change, not a property of the deployment fixed at start-up. Only the
+API key stays in the environment, and an endpoint that needs no key is a valid
+configuration.
 
 **Budgets.** A token bucket per provider and per translator, with a configured
 daily allowance. The reconcile loop spends it newest-import-first, so enabling